Mahz

Increase character limit per post?

Increased post limit from 2¹⁶ (65,536) to 2¹⁷ (131,072). Source It'll go into effect this weekend when I do the next server deploy. Possibly sooner. That enough?

Mahz's Dev Journal

Would a back button be more difficult than telling the server to go to page - 1?

@LegendBegins

The hack is that, unlike for posts and PMs, there are no pages for recent-posts and convos. I go through great length to get fast pagination for posts and PMs by monotonically increasing a number that starts at 0 for each post/PM in that topic/convo (I call it the post.idx and pm.idx). That way it's easy to calculate which range of idx to query from the database given a page number and the amount of posts/PMs to display per page. The database is fast at "WHERE idx > X AND idx < Y" queries. That system doesn't work as well for things with high churn like convos, so I'll see if I can get a previous-button working with the current hack.

Indeed, a simple javascript back would be an easy hack for the meantime.

@Captain Jordan

Oh man. Didn't think of that nasty hack which actually isn't that bad since a user is never deep-linking to a page of recent-posts or convos. It'll be my quick plan B if plan A sucks.

Mahz's Dev Journal

No fun at all @Mahz. Hopefully it passes quickly! I was wondering if you could implement two things in the PM list. I've noticed there is a page forward button and one that takes you back to the first page. Do you think you could add another button so that we can go to the previous page (Now I think about it, it also applies to the recent posts on the userpage). Also, do you think you can bring back the PM count for each convo on the PM list? It was a helpful way for me to distinguish between convos with similar names and people involved.

@Kirra

1. I'll see about adding a "Previous" button for recent-posts and convos. That there's only a "Next" button is a bit of a performance hack since it's easy for the server to calculate. I didn't try to add a "Previous" button yet since I figured it wasn't so common for people to be iterating through history. But yeah, bit of a usability annoyance. 2. Haha, I didn't realize the convo message count wasn't displaying. Must've typo'd something. I will fix. Update: Whoops, forgot to add it back after a recent code change. It's fixed for the next code deploy.

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For now you can log out and use the "Forgot my password" feature on the login page. It'll email you a link you can use to change your password.

Mahz's Dev Journal

I'll finish the UI and roll it out when I wake up sometime.

@Mahz

Change of plans - I ate a bad hamburger patty at a superbowl party last night and I've been suffering all day. I'll resume working on it this weekend. @Captain Jordan: Good ideas. I'll think about them this weekend. @BBeast: Good call, that's one of the reasons I split up the topic & convo systems for the rewrite. Easier to lock down all convos with one line of code (you must be a participant to read/post in a convo) rather than have this overloaded topics-for-convos system. @LegendBegins: Yeah, I'd like to push updates to the browser. Maybe I can keep it simple. @Kirra: Aw. Poor [@Mr_pink] :( - Thanks, I'll fix.

Is it character limit or word limit?

I just came up with 2[sup]16[/sub] because the old forum used it. I can increase it if people want it. Perhaps 2¹⁷ (131,072 chars).

So...

I don't believe so. But note I'm more of a face person than a name person. So atm everyone on the Guild who lakes a profile pic tends to just blur together for me.

@Gwazi Magnum

Subtle hint, but I'll take it. Gwazi wants the unicorns back.

Wow! So glad I'm back :)

Hope to see you around